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Was that a wink? Now Andromeda was almost sure the woman was playing a game with her. She didn't want to show that she was intimidated, and by her own strange logic the way to do that was to think of the thing that would have made her blush most if said to her, and then say that. "Sometimes flowers are the best tool to catch a large cat."

The game of words had distracted her, the moment of inspiration she experienced a short while ago had gone. Trying to bring it back, she thought aloud. "Yeah, two in one boat... doesn't seem safe at all..."

Suddenly blushing like a tomato, she pointed in a random direction. "Um, I didn't mean that like... like... I'm just going to pace back and forth over there for a while, okay?"

This was not good. This was bad. She wasn't sure if Corki had meant to be suggestive, or if those interpretations were only in her head. The bigger problem now was that those things had come out of her mouth in a much less ambiguous way, and the last thing had been spontaneous instead of a joking response... it had not been what she meant, but those people didn't know that... did they? Why did she have so much difficulty figuring people out?

Andromeda changed the direction in which she was pacing. What was going on here? It was all in her head, wasn't it? But why then was it in her head? She didn't even like girls. She didn't like anyone that way. Right? She stopped to look over her shoulder at Corki. There was something awfully familiar about all this. How very strange.

She continued walking like an animal in the front of its cage. Had she and that woman been together in a previous game? Had they done anything? No, not possible, anything inappropriate for children would end a game. She exhaled. She told herself "Andromeda. Stop being silly and go back to the group." She took another deep breath.

When she returned, she tried to act neutral. "So, have you guys figured it out yet?"